Education:

• Ph.D.:Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA

• M.S.: Department of Computer Science, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

• B.S.: Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Work:

• [May 2008 - Now] Principal Member of Technical Staff: AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJ

• [Feb 2007 - May 2008] Director of Search Engine Research: Adverplex Inc., Cambridge, MA

• [Feb 2004 - Feb 2007] Senior Member of Technical Staff: AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJ
  

• [Sept 2003- Feb 2004] Postdoc Researcher: Computer Networks Research Group, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA

Publications:

• Modeling User Activities in a Large IPTV System Tongqing Qiu, Zihui Ge, Seungjoon Lee, Jia Wang, Jim Xu and Qi Zhao Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Chicago, Illinois, November, 2009

• Darkstar: Using Exploratory Data Mining to Raise the Bar on Network Reliability and Performance Charles R. Kalmanek, Zihui Ge, Seungjoon Lee, Carsten Lund, Dan Pei, Joseph Seidel, Jacobus Van der Merwe and Jennifer Yates Proceedings of the 7th international workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN), October, 2009

• Towards Automated Performance Diagnosis in a Large IPTV Network Ajay Mahimkar, Zihui Ge, Aman Shaikh, Jia Wang, Jennifer Yates, Yin Zhang and Qi ZhaoProceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM, Barcelona, Spain, August 2009.

• Modeling Channel Popularity Dynamics in a Large IPTV System Tongqing Qiu, Zihui Ge, Seungjoon Lee, Jia Wang, Qi Zhao and Jim XuProceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS, Seattle, WA, June 2009.

• Troubleshooting Chronic Conditions in Large IP Networks Ajay Mahimkar, Jennifer Yates, Yin Zhang, Aman Shaikh, Jia Wang, Zihui Ge and Cheng Tien Ee Proceedings of the ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2008), Madrid, Spain, December 2008

• Joint Traffic Blocking and Routing under Network Failures and Maintenances Chao Liang, Zihui Ge and Yong Liu Proceedings of IEEE Globecom 2007 Performance Modeling, QoS and Reliability Symposium, Washington DC, USA, November 2007

• Design and Analysis of a Demand Adaptive and Locality Aware Streaming Media Server Cluster Zihui Ge, Ping Ji and Prashant Shenoy Multimedia Systems, 2007

• Lightweight Application Classification for Network Management Hongbo Jiang, Andrew W. Moore, Zihui Ge, Shudong Jin, and Jia Wang Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Network Management (INM), Kyoto, Japan, August 2007.

• A Comparison of Hard-state and Soft-state Signaling Protocols Ping Ji, Zihui Ge, Jim Kurose and Don Towsley Transactions on Networking (ToN), June 2007

• Internet traffic and multiresolution analysis Y. Zhang, Z. Ge, S N. Diggavi, Z M. Mao, M. Roughan, V. Vaishampayan, W. Willinger and Y. Zhang "Festschrift for Thomas Kurtz", Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), 2007.

• OPTWALL: A Hierarchical Traffic-Aware Firewall Subrata Acharya, Bryan Mills, Mehmud Abliz, Taieb Znati, Jia Wang, Zihui Ge, and Albert Greenberg Proceedings of 14th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2007, San Diego, CA.

• Robust Traffic Matrix Estimation with Imperfect Information: Making Use of Multiple Data Sources Qi Zhao, Zihui Ge, Jia Wang, and Jim Xu Proceedings of SIGMETRICS 2006, June 2006, Saint-Malo, France.

• Traffic-Aware Firewall Optimization Strategies Subrata Acharya, Jia Wang, Zihui Ge, Taieb F. Znati, and Albert Greenberg Proceedings of International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2006, Istanbul, Turkey.

• Path Protection Routing with SRLG Constraints to Support IPTV in WDM Mesh Networks Meeyoung Cha, Wanpracha Art Chaovalitwongse, Zihui Ge, Jennifer Yates, and Sue Moon Proceedings of Global Internet 2006, April 2006, Barcelona, Spain.

• Dynamic cache reconfiguration strategies for cluster-based streaming proxy Yang Guo, Zihui Ge, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Prashant Shenoy and Don Towsley Computer Communications, 2006.

• Network Anomography Yin Zhang, Zihui Ge, Albert Greenberg and Matthew Roughan Proceedings of the International Measurement Conference (IMC), October 2005, Berkeley, California, USA.

• Optimal Routing with Multiple Traffic Matrices: Tradeoff between Average Case and Worst Case Performance Chun Zhang, Zihui Ge, Jim Kurose, Yong Liu and Don Towsley Proceedings of the International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), November 2005, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

• Optimizing Event Distribution in Publish/Subscribe Systems in the Presence of Policy-Constraints and Composite Events Weifeng Chen, Zihui Ge, Jim Kurose and Don Towsley Proceedings of the International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), November 2005, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

• Finding Critical Traffic Matrices Yin Zhang and Zihui Ge Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 2005, Yokohama, Japan.

• Index-Server Optimization for P2P File Sharing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Chikara Ohta, Zihui Ge, Yang Guo and Jim Kurose Proceedings of Globecom 2004, November 2004, Dallas, Texas, USA.

• On Dynamic Subset Difference Revocation Scheme Weifeng Chen, Zihui Ge, Chun Zhang, Jim Kurose and Don Towsley Proceedings of Networking 2004, May 2004, Athens, Greece.

• Modeling Frame-level Errors in GSM Wireless Channels Ping Ji, Benyuan Liu, Don Towsley, Zihui Ge and Jim Kurose Performance Evaluation, pages 165-181, volume 55, numbers 1-2, January 2004.

• A Comparison of Hard-state and Soft-state Signaling Protocols Ping Ji, Zihui Ge, Jim Kurose and Don TowsleyProceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2003, August 2003, Karlsruhe, Germany

• Matchmaker: Signaling for Dynamic Publish/Subscribe Applications Zihui Ge, Ping Ji, Jim Kurose and Don Towsley Proceedings of ICNP 2003, November 2003, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

• Bandwidth and Space-Constrained Caching Strategies for Cluster-Based Streaming Proxies Yang Guo, Zihui Ge, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Prashant Shenoy and Don Towsley Proceedings of WCW 2003, September 2003, Hawthorne, New York, USA.

• Modeling Peer-Peer File Sharing Systems Zihui Ge, Daniel R. Figueiredo, Sharad Jaiswal, Jim Kurose and Don Towsley Proceedings of INFOCOM 2003, April 2003, San Francisco, California, USA.

• Signaling Protocols for Distributed Multicast-Based Publish/Subscribe Applications Ping Ji, Zihui Ge, Jim Kurose and Don Towsley
  Presented in OPENSIG, October 2002, Lexington Kentucky, USA.

• Min-Cost Matchmaker Problem in Distributed Publish/Subscribe Infrastructures
  Zihui Ge, Ping Ji, Jim Kurose and Don Towsley
  Presented in OPENSIG, October 2002, Lexington Kentucky, USA.

• Network Resilience: Exploring Cascading Failures within BGPE.G. Coffman Jr., Zihui Ge, Vishal Misra and Don Towsley Proceedings of the 40th annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Computing and Control, October 2002, Monticello, Illinois, USA.

• A Demand Adaptive and Locality Aware (DALA) Streaming Media Server Cluster Architecture Zihui Ge, Ping Ji and Prashant Shenoy Proceedings of NOSSDAV 2002, May 2002, Miami, Florida, USA.

• Specialized Active Networking for Distributed Simulation S.Zabele, M.Dorsch, Z.Ge, P.Ji, M.Keaton, J.Kurose, J.Shapiro and D.Towsley IEEE DARPA Active Networks Conference and Exposition, May 2002, San Francisco, California, USA.

• Channelization Problem in Large Scale Data Dissemination Micah Adler, Zihui Ge, James Kurose, Don Towsley and Stephen Zabele Proceedings of ICNP 2001, Nov. 2001, Riverside, California, USA.

• On the Hierarchical Structure of the Logical Internet Graph Zihui Ge, Daniel Ratton Figueiredo, Sharad Jaiswal and Lixin Gao Proceedings of SPIE ITCom 2001, Aug. 2001, Denver, Colorado, USA.